Improvement in devices for transmitting motion



UNITED STATES FICE.

ATENT PETER PALMLUND, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 116,745, dated July 4, 1871.

To alli/whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, PETER PALMLUM), a subject of the crown of Sweden, but now residing at Brooklyn, in the county of Kin and State of New York, have invented a new and useful 1inprovement in Devices for Transmitting Motion, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying' drawing forming part of this specification, and in which- Figure 1 represents a side view or elevation of my improved device, and Fig. 2 a plan of the same.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in bothy figures.

My invention relates to means for transmitting rotary motion, at a diminished velocity, from one shaft to another, or for converting a rapid reciprocating motion into a slow rotary one. The invention consists in a combination with two shafts, the one of which is the driver to the other, and which are connected by a universal joint, of a bevel-wheel, made fast to the driving-shaft, that has a conical revolving motion, and a stationary circular rack in concentric relation with the other shaft and of greater diameter than the bevelwheel that gears with and revolves around it, whereby the one shaft is made to rotate the other with a diminished velocity, dependent upon the difference between the number of teeth in the rack and wheel. The driving-shaft has its conical revolving motion given to it and the wheel its revolving motion around the rack by a pitm an in jointed connection with said sha-ft.

Referring to the accompanying drawing, Are-presents a vertical shaft to be rotated at a diminished velocity from a shaft, B, with which it is connected by a universal joint, b, at the adjacent ends of said shafts. r1his driving-shaft B is operated by a pinna-11,0, which receives its mot-ion from the reciprocating piston of an engine, or

otherwise, and is connected with said shaft by a sleeve, d, pivoted, as at e, to a jaw, j', that in its turn is pivoted, in transverse relation with the pivot e, as at g, to the end of the rod O. Saidl shaft B carries a bevel-wheel, D, which gearswith a fixed circular rack, E, that is in concentric relation with the shaft A. The shaft B has two motions-that is to say, a rotating motion on its axis and a conical revolving one from the universal ljoint I) as a center--the wheel D traveling around the stationary rack E and the shaft B preferably being supported or steadied near its lower end by a circular boss or runner, h, arranged to run on the upper face of the rack, around or in proximity to its eye. The wheel D is of smaller K diameter, or has a less number of teeth in it, than the rack E, and as the difference in niunber of teeth in the wheel and rack is to the whole number of teeth in the wheel so will be the number of conical revolutions made by the shaft B and revolutions of the wheel around the rack to each one rotation of the shaft A. Thus, if the rack E has forty-one (41) teeth in it and the wheel D thirtyfive (35) teeth, which gives a differenceof six (6) teeth, then will it require five and five-sixths (5%) conical revolutions of the shaft B and revolutions of the wheel around the ack to produce one rotation ofthe shaftsA and B on their respective axes. In this way, although the two shafts are tied or .jointed together, the shaft A has a diminished velocity communicated to it from the more rapid conically-revolvin g shaft-B or rapid reciproca-sign motion of the pitman C.

What is here claimed, and desired to be secured by Letters Patent, is-

1. The combination, with the shafts A and B,

jointed together as described and the latter of which has a conical revolving motion in addition to a rotating one on its axis, of the wheel D and fixed circular rack E having an equal number of teeth in them, substantially as specified.

2. `The pitman C, and sleeve d connected therewith by universal-joint, inV combination with the universally-jointed or attached shafts A and B, the wheel l), and stationary rack E of unequal diameters, essentially as herein set forth.

3. The circular boss or ruimer h at the foot ofthe conically-revolving sha-ft B, in combination with the wheel D, the fixed circular rack E, and

the shafts A and B, substantially as specified. P. PALMLUND.

Witnesses FRED HAYNEs, B. E. RABEAU. 

